Royal Mail workers to stage four-day strike, heaping further pressure on retailers. 9 August 2022. More than 115,000 Royal Mail workers will stage … Source link
Read More »Royal Mail workers to go on strike demanding Pay Rise
Royal Mail workers to go on strike demanding “Proper Pay Rise” Over 100,000 Royal mail workers will form the biggest strike of the year in order to demand a proper, according to the Communication Workers Union (CWU). Royal Mail workers will go on strike for four days in the coming …
Read More »Brighton maintain unbeaten start as West Ham suffer third straight defeat
Goals from Alexis Mac Allister and Leandro Trossard condemned West Ham to a 2-0 defeat at home to bogey side Brighton. Mac Allister’s first-half penalty and Trossard’s breakaway goal maintained Brighton’s unbeaten start to the season and made it three defeats from three matches for the Hammers. West Ham have …
Read More »UK hit by massive strikes
The Herald Railway and postal staff, dockers too. Britain’s workers are striking in vast numbers as decades-high inflation erodes the value of wages at a record pace. Britain’s train network faces further heavy disruption Thursday and Saturday in major walkouts that follow the sector’s biggest strike action for 30 years …
Read More »First Bus acknowledges services are ‘not where we want it to be’
First Bus for the West of England has come under fire again as further cancellations and delays have left passengers feeling frustrated and let down. But in the aftermath of a Twitter exchange between the public transport company and a passenger, the firm acknowledged the poorer standard of its services …
Read More »Once-close royal brothers William and Harry now estranged
In this file photo taken on April 17, 2021 Britain’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge and Britain’s Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex follow the coffin during the ceremonial funeral procession of Britain’s Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh to St George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle in Windsor, west of London. — …
Read More »Sunday newspaper round-up: Sky-high electricity prices, Royal Mail, Olaf Scholz
Royal Mail is facing a summer of discontent as its union demands with a potential price tag of £1bn, even as it calls for shorter working weeks … Source link
Read More »Port strike threatens months of disruption | Business
An eight-day strike at the Port of Felixstowe, Britain’s biggest gateway to global trade, could disrupt supplies to the nation’s supermarkets and exports by the country’s biggest industrial groups through to Christmas, experts are warning. There are fears that consumers could face fresh shortages of some goods and even higher …
Read More »A toxic but effective cure for gout pain | Health & wellbeing
I was surprised that your article on gout made no mention of colchicine, which I find clears up my gout in hours (I’m 35 and I have gout – and it’s not for the reasons you think, 18 August). Colchicine, in the form of the autumn crocus, was used as …
Read More »Hastings unites in a people’s assembly to confront the crisis
Hastings People’s Assembly. Photo: Michael Huggett Faced with multiple interlocking crises, unity in action is the only way we can effectively resist, writes Michael Huggett reporting on Saturday’s Hastings people’s assembly Evidence, if any were needed, of the power of local groups coming together in solidarity, was seen on Saturday …
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